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O-U Cereals Brachos Listing

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The O-U has just released a list of many popular cereals under its hasgacha with the appropriate bracha rishona and bracha achrona according to the ruling of HaRav Chaim Yisroel Belsky, Shlita.

Please make a copy, put on your refrigerator, and distribute to your friends and family.

Click here for the OU List>>

Also, refer to the Star-K listing of cereals brachos which include many of the O-U cereals in the above list but includes a number of OK and plain K (Kellog’s) certified ones too.

 

 

Please see the following link:  http://tinyurl.com/b5f8qtt

We recommend that this valuable list be further distributed to your shul and/or yeshiva in order to avoid the recitation c’v of brachos levatalos, and in order to bring the proper hashpa’ah  and shefa into the world by reciting the correct and proper bracha over the food that you are about to eat or have eaten.  In the zechus of your further promulgation of this list…may you be zoche to brachos ahd bli dai!

Brachos of Fiber One, Pringles, Craisins, Corn Cakes, and Granola Bars

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Pringles(Hakhel)

It could be said that one is not intruding into the life of another if, out of care and concern, he would like to aid another perform a Mitzvah properly.  As one example, we provided cases where the bracha over an item is not well known and one should feel comfortable mentioning this fact and double-checking that his fellow is about to make the correct bracha.  A reader commented that the bracha on several of the foods that we noted, is in fact, the subject of dispute among authorities.  Accordingly, we provide our most recent brief notes on the brachos at hand:

A.  Fiber One.  The OU, which gives the Hashgacha on Fiber One cereal, has determined that the proper brachos on this cereal are Mezonos and Al HaMichya.  We note that the original determination as to Fiber One was that its bracha was a Shehakol, but that position changed over a year ago [we do not know whether this was due to a change in the constitution of the product].

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